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Example sentences of "his [noun] use " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Vlaminck always insisted that he was the first to have ‘ discovered ’ African or Negro sculpture ( and he and his contemporaries used the term ‘ art negre ’ generically to cover not only African but also Polynesian art and indeed any tribal art at all that came their way ) and his claim was to pass into legend , although Gauguin himself possibly owned examples of African as well as Polynesian sculpture .
2	For these considerable services he received nothing , his enemies using the time he was away to poison Francesco I Sforza against him , not least because they were jealous of the work on the chapel .
3	Again , signer 2 differed notably from the others in his inability to use two lexical items simultaneously .
4	Lord Denning stated : Wherever a person has a sufficient degree of control over premises that he ought to realise that any failure on his part to use care may result in injury to a person coming lawfully there , then he is an occupier and the person coming lawfully there is his visitor .
5	His decision to use it as the basis for a grand narrative painting can be aligned with the revival of interest in Victoriana which the Festival of Britain had stimulated and which was especially noticeable in the graphic section of the Design School at the Royal College .
6	At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life .
7	In such a case an adult might be held liable either for breach of his contract to use proper care or for a wrong independent of the contract ; an infant has been held not to be liable at all .
8	Even when he was clothed , the firelight played up his flexing muscles as he removed his jumper to use as a pillow .
9	Because what is done , I mean when I was in hospital his mum used to that try and pick up
10	Bukharin and his associates used Rosa and Ernst Meyer 's hotel room in Moscow for meetings to discuss the mounting struggle inside the Bolshevik Party , meetings at which they ridiculed the ever higher figures being propounded for the drafts of the First Five Year Plan .
11	His orcs use a kind of gunpowder at Helm 's Deep ( II , 142 ) ; thirty pages later the Ents meet at Isengard , or ‘ Irontown ’ , a kind of napalm — perhaps one should say with closer reference to Tolkien 's own experience , a Flammenwerfer .
12	He tried to wipe the wetness from his mouth using the back of his hand , only to find his face smeared afresh with a foamy slime .
13	Finally , does he accept that the general public want to see him and his Department using all their energies to ensure the implementation of a safe , reliable railway , instead of producing a White Paper on the privatisation of British Rail ?
14	CBS Records were inside holding their annual international conference , and Elvis stood in the street performing a selection of his songs using a small portable amplifier , just as his debut single ‘ Less Than Zero ’ has just been released .
15	Paul Bedworth , now studying artificial intelligence in Edinburgh , is said to have spent hours in his bedroom using a £200 terminal he received as a Christmas present to cause chaos , by breaching hi-tech systems in numerous countries .
16	In some cases , again , his links with the local gentry can be inferred only from his readiness to use them on sensitive business after 1483 .
17	Robert did n't want to talk to the engineering master , but neither did he want to go out after Aziz the janitor , who , in their first conversation in the Frog and Ferret , had made pretty clear not only his low opinion of infidels but also his readiness to use cutlery on other human beings with whom he disagreed .
18	In some cases , again , his links with the local gentry can be inferred only from his readiness to use them on sensitive business after 1483 .
19	His experiment used the conditioned suppression procedure and his critical experimental finding was that a novel stimulus added to a pre-trained excitatory CS evokes more suppression than the compound of CS plus familiar stimulus .
20	On the opening page of Amis 's first novel , Jim mentally decides on his own word when his professor uses another , deferentially pretending as an untenured lecturer to look amused at a weak professorial joke , and he promises himself to make another sort of face to himself when next alone .
21	The bulk of his information would doubtless come from the newspapers , the same source his clients used .
22	In fact it was a further 33 years , in 1954 , that Dr. Pierre Schmidt of Geneva published essays about his experiences using the LM scale .
23	Although in his work using transformational grammar , Ohmann neglected this function , he has concentrated on it in subsequent work . ) "
24	He never was in earnest , Cadfael reflected with certainty , and it would spoil his sport to use contrivance .
25	The High Elf player uses the High Elf army list , whilst his opponent uses his own list .
26	The Orc and Goblin player uses the Orc and Goblin army list , while his opponent uses the list from the Warhammer Armies book for his army .
27	The Empire player uses the Empire army list , while his opponent uses his own list from the Warhammer Armies book for his army .
28	The sheep often use gravity to increase the force of their attack : a male that stands above another on a hillside is at a distinct advantage ; he can drop on to his opponent using the full weight of his body .
29	It was just beyond eleven when they finished , and Rory was well conscious of his need to use the telephone .
30	( A fourth possibility , others have suggested , is that Gravier never was on the airplane at all , but he sent an aide in his place using his name to deliver a package in which there was a bomb .